Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code is a 2004 report by Kenneth Brown. The report suggests that the Linux kernel may have been created or distributed illegally and that open-source software may be generally subject to such abuses. The book was greeted with widespread rejection by the technical world and was repudiated by many of its claimed sources. The prerelease has long been delisted from the distributor's site and the book was never given a proper release, although the prerelease PDF is available online.